Denver

Lilster (note: iPhone autocorrects lilster to oilseed) and I spent the day with her old college friends in Denver, the mile high city. We rode bikes:



We saw the capital:


We went to a brewery:


Long story short, I'm probably moving to Denver.

Miles: 1850


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Location:Arapahoe St,Denver,United States

Colorado

After a slow start to the trip on Thursday due to excessive NYC traffic, we have rebounded to being almost completely on schedule. We drove about 1,000 miles in the past day, from Chicago to Denver, through the heartland of America.



This part of the country is mostly untouched by modernity - but the signs of humanity are still everywhere. Although we saw very few people (Nebraska and Iowa COMBINED have less than half the people of NYC), literally all of the highway is flanked by farms and crops. Iowa did have some nice wind turbines though - probably the main addition to the landscape in the past 100 years.



Being out here makes the whole small-town, anti-Washington/government Sarah Palin schtick makes a lot of sense. These towns are largely autonomous an self-sufficient. Getting government "off their backs" is compelling.

Anyway, it's great to be out here. It's hard to know a country as large and diverse as the U.S., but I don't think you can even begin to understand it until you do a trip like this. God bless America and all that jazz.


Miles: 1,820

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Location:Leetsdale Dr,Denver,United States